‘Chance of one other assault on Imran Khan’: Pak choose cities intel report | World News

Two weeks after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan suffered wounds in a gun assault throughout a rally, the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom stated there's a risk of one other assassination try on him, citing intelligence studies, reported Pakistani media, Daybreak. In keeping with the Chief Justice of Islamabad Excessive Courtroom Aamer Farooq, it was the “authorities’s accountability to take cognizance of the looming menace on the previous prime minister".

The CJI's remarks got here whereas listening to a petition filed by merchants relating to street closures as a result of protest staged by Khan’s celebration.

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The cricketer-turned-politician had suffered a bullet harm on his leg after a gun-wielding man fired bullets at him and others on November 4 within the Wazirabad space of Punjab province - throughout PTI's protest march in opposition to the Shehbaz Sharif authorities.

Earlier, Khan stated that he had discovered in regards to the looming hazard beforehand.

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“I had already discovered that there was a plan in place to kill me someplace between Wazirabad and Gujrat. 4 folks plotted to kill me. I made a video and named these folks and have stashed it overseas," he had stated as he spoke throughout a televised deal with whereas nonetheless being admitted on the Shaukat Khanum Hospital in Lahore.

In the meantime, on Thursday, Pakistan's Supreme Courtroom dismissed a petition to cease Khan's protest march. The court docket noticed that “it was a political situation and needs to be resolved politically.”

(With inputs from companies)